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SpecialAgentCooper
Sep 15, 2008

Where we're from, the birds sing a pretty song, and there's always music in the air.
I have a question that doesn't really apply to either photography or post-processing, but 1) I don't want to muck up the forum by making a new thread for such a small question and 2) I doubt anybody knows more about RGB vs CMYK than the people posting here. So:

I have an image with only green, white, and black in it, nothing else (arty photo manip basically). It's in RGB and I need to convert it to CMYK for printing, but the green hue I used is too bright so the color conversion dials it down a bit to a duller blue-ish green. This is a bit annoying but I kind of expected it, whatever. But when it gets "converted", will the color I see in Photoshop match whatever color is on the printed copy? Because when I save the same image as a jpeg, it appears as a horribly bright neon green, much brighter than the one in Photoshop. So which one is closest to the print color?

Am I missing something really blatantly obvious? Is there a way to get something close the original color in CMYK? For reference, the color I originally used was #009900. I'm not really sure what to expect from what I print, especially since I can't afford a crazy monitor calibration setup. Again, sorry if this question doesn't really fit in with the general discussion/impressive tutorials, but I thought somebody here would understand my problem best.

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